1: Difficult situation with drug in back of pantihose (5,4)

3: Keeps, in vases, bananas (5)

6: Former leader's relative with bit of tension in stomach (4, 3)

9: This is the scene as represented in meetings with spirits (7)

10: Company trapped by inflation is cause of great trouble (7)

11: Backsliding, Pa reels drunkenly (7)

12: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

13: Western retreat satisfactory, accepted by canoeists and surfers? (3,8)

14: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

19: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)

21: Providing cash for pleasure - many a mixed drink! (7)

22: Blind doctor sees Ely (7)

23: Rescind bad judge (7)

24: Prudent law enforcers endlessly import information technology (7)

25: Tilts and rolls (5)

26: First popular promise - extreme appeal (9)

1: Employs as token members (5,2)

2: Lead around other green (7)

3: Everyone in exhibition lacking in character (7)

4: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

5: Siblings who have orderly habits? (7)

7: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)

8: Confuse cast (5)

9: Pilot sometimes sounded more irritated (5)

14: One who does not believe in Castro (7)

15: Those with regrets reining in destroyers (7)

16: Algerian city has grand musical instrument (5)

17: Bad example or examples (7)

18: Grow from second spring (5)

20: Evita, for example, making false claim about American (7)